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IDGAF · febuary

EXERCISE 25 OF 25
Play the whole song with the record
55 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 67 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART K
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLFBHS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play IDGAF on drums

67 bars, 3:49, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, snare through bars 19-35, silence through bars 36-37, toms through bars 38-50 and snare through bars 51-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-29, 32-33 and 52-53, and 2 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----x-----------x-----------x---|
BD |x-----------x-------------------|
IDGAF -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 50 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- I, L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-35 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is IDGAF?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is IDGAF hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in IDGAF?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 50 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED